Between Two Trees: Our Transformation from Death to Life

by Shane J Wood

Overview

The problem of Eden is much worse than you thought, but the solution is much better than you could have ever imagined. Life isn't lived under Eden's tree of life or beneath the healing leaves of the tree in the new Jerusalem. It is lived between them. And between these two trees, life is hard. In spite of this reality, Between Two Trees will challenge you to embrace hope, love, and the beauty of reconciliation at the true tree of life: the cross of Calvary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684260706
Publisher:	Abilene Christian University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Pages:	242
Sales rank:	366,242
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Shane J. Wood (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is a professor of New Testament and the associate academic dean at Ozark Christian College. He also serves as a teaching minister at College Heights Christian Church and offers free lectures, sermons, and unique Bible study opportunities at shanejwood.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Life between Two Trees 9

Section 1 The Tree of Death

Chapter 1 The Wages of Sin: It's Worse Than Hell 23

Chapter 2 The Depths of Union: Becoming One Flesh with Death 31

Chapter 3 Darkness Fearing the Light: The War Within 39

Section 2 The Shadow of the Tree of Death

Chapter 4 Life in the Shadows: The Grammar of Death 53

Chapter 5 The State of Our Union: Divided We Fall 67

Chapter 6 Separate We Stand 79

Section 3 The Tree between the Trees

Chapter 7 Our Father Remains: Beauty and the Tree of Life 97

Chapter 8 "It Is Finished": Embracing Death to Find Life 111

Chapter 9 Sex: A Model of Divine Union 127

Section 4 The Light of the Tree of Life

Chapter 10 Opening the Womb to Truth: Union through Kenosis 141

Chapter 11 Permission: The Path to Transformation 153

Chapter 12 Wishing Away the Day: The Transformation of Time 165

Chapter 13 The Place of Pain 177

Chapter 14 The Wonder of With 189

Chapter 15 True Humanity: The Redemption of Christian Works 201

Chapter 16 Eating from the Tree of Life: Union with the God Who Pursues 217

Acknowledgments 229

Notes 233

Scripture Index 236